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When he returned to his seat, which was decidedly not comfortable just then, the teacher smiled a real, sure-enough schoolma'am smile, and remarked that she hoped our brilliant scholar, Mister Champneys, knew now what the boy got for his chestnuts. The class laughed as good scholars are expected to laugh on such occasions.
"I saw it," rejoined Farley, "and I claim it, if no one else wants it." "What ails you fellows?" rebuked Dave Darrin. "The man who passed us was a sure-enough lieutenant in the Navy." "Him?" demanded Midshipman Dalzell, startled out of his grip on English grammar. "A lieutenant? That -that -kid?" "He's a lieutenant of the Navy, all right," Dave insisted.
But say, the old judge has got some good horses runnin' on the upper range, if you want to keep your hand in, thirty or forty head of 'em, and wild as hawks. There's some sure-enough wild horses too, over on the Peaks, that belong to any man that can git his rope onto 'em how would that strike you? We've been tryin' for years to catch the black stallion that leads 'em."
He had some "real cowboys" and "sure-enough Indians," as well as employees who were not thus advertised. The steers turned loose for the cowboys to "bulldog" were rather tame animals, for they were used to the employment. The "bronco busters" rode trick horses so well trained that they really acted better than their masters. Some of the roping and riding especially by the Indians was really good.
It grew denser as he came nearer. He found Bob Hart, in oilskins and rubber boots, bossing a gang of scrapers, giving directions to a second one building a dam across a draw, and supervising a third group engaged in siphoning crude oil from one sump to another. From head to foot Hart and his assistants were wet to the skin with the black crude oil. "'Lo, Dave! One sure-enough little spouter!"
We all thought, from the officers down, that now the war would end, that we would see no actual service, and never fire a shot. That we would be discharged, and go home just little "trundle-bed soldiers," and have to sit around and hear other sure-enough warriors tell the stories of actual war and fighting. If we only had known, we were borrowing unnecessary trouble, as we found out later.
"I'd like to say grace: 'I thank Thee, Lord, for this sure-enough food and for Uncle Winthrop being here, and please let it happen again and don't let it make us sick. Amen." Through the grace Channing's fork had been suspended, but his jaws had not stopped work; and at the last word he leaned forward and made a dive for the olives, two of which he put in his mouth at once.
Before the day's out somethin' 'll happen, an' them fish'll have a meanin'." "Hell," said Smoke, dismissing the discussion contemptuously. "An' it'll be hell," Shorty came back. "An' I'll take three more toothpicks with you on them same odds that it'll be sure-enough hell." "Done," said Smoke. "I win," Shorty exulted. "Chicken-feather toothpicks for mine."
A sure-enough man, that's what I call him, and me to fight if any dispute's made to the title, according." The tall bronzed man who was leading his horse along the road entering the mountain horseshoe, smiled with a touch of gravity in the light of his gray eyes.
The rider, who had drifted up along the Wall five years before, looked down at the playing kitten and smiled with a lean crinkling of his cheeks. "It's a sure-enough big place, Tharon," he said gravely, "an' it's lovely as Eden." "Huh?" said Tharon, "where's that, Billy?" The boy sobered and looked up into her blue eyes. "Why, Tharon," he whispered, "that's where th' heart is."
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